[Sassy]

Do you remember when you had to turn the knob on the TV to change the station, to hear the sound of the click-click-click as you counted to the next channel in hopes of entertainment. Going too fast meant someone, an adult someone, probably yelled at you not to abuse the TV. Pausing between stations too long meant you heard the static. The ....sssshchshchschsch.... that heralded the absence of a signal. No information available -- nothing to see here, don't linger too long. The sound of static. I miss that sound. Digital eradicated that sound. Technology made a sound irrelevant. Now the absence of a signal is silence. Lack of a signal is no longer an audible event. We silenced the static.

.... My brain is static-y today. I wish someone else could hear it. I'd feel less alone that way.